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Calling it “journalism of the worst kind”, the Press Council of India is set to censure the Mysuru daily Star of Mysore for an editorial referring to Muslims as “bad apples” in April 2020.

In 2017, three researchers from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Denis Bourguet, Benoit Facon and Thomas Guillemaud, founded Peer Community In (PCI), a peer-review-based service for recommending preprints (referring to the version of an article that a scientist submits to a review committee). The…

The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.

On May 21, voting took place to elect a new crop of office bearers at the Press Club of India in Delhi. A day later, the results were declared – the panel led by outgoing president Umakant Lakhera had won all the seats.

A journalist named Govind Gurjar was allegedly assaulted by a hospital’s staff in Bhopal

‘The freedom of the press is integral to the functioning of a vibrant democracy’

In 1994, when 18 women journalists decided to set up a space exclusively for their ilk, then prime minister P V Narasima Rao appreciated the idea and offered them a quaint, white bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi’s Ashoka Road – 900 metres away from a building housing the male-dominated Press Club…

It demanded the immediate release of arrested journalists.

Press Club of India asks L-G ‘to restore the land and registration’